A Brent drug dealer has been jailed after he tried to run over a policeman to avoid arrest and drove around 70 metres with the officer on his bonnet.

Sergeant Paul Street said it was "pure luck" that he was not seriously injured and was able to arrest 27-year-old Andre George after the vehicle stopped in Cambridge.

George, of Crome Road, was jailed for more than four years at Peterborough Crown Court on Friday (February 17) after admitting being concerned with the supply of Class A drugs and assault with intent to resist arrest, Cambridgeshire Police said.

Two plain-clothes officers spotted the George dealing drugs from a vehicle in Cambridge on November 3 last year.

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When the police officers approached George, he drove off, knocking Sergeant Street onto the bonnet and travelling around 70 metres with the officer on the vehicle.

Sergeant Street was uninjured and managed to arrest George when the vehicle eventually stopped.

George was sentenced to three years and six months in prison for being concerned with the supply of a Class A drug and seven months for assault with intent to resist arrest, with the sentences to run consecutively.